Reproductive Potential Impacts Body Maintenance Parameters and Global DNA Methylation in Honeybee Workers (<i>Apis mellifera</i> L.)
The widely accepted hypothesis in life history evolution about the trade-off between fecundity and longevity is not confirmed by long-living and highly fecund queens in eusocial insects. The fact that the queens and facultatively sterile workers usually arise from genetically identical eggs but diff...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-11-01
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Series: | Insects |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/11/1021 |